"The prospects at White Oak church are at present quite changed and joyful. Our four days meetings have been so engaging, that all our lively professors, especially young people, are unwilling to be absent if they are within reach." From the Rev. J. Hunt, M'Connellsville, Ohio, August 12th, 1830. Christians of other denominations who || Blessed be the name of Him who shows attended; but, especially, to many poor his people, that they must wrestle for sinners who are not yet connected with blessings, and enables them to taste any professing people. Much feeling how sweet they are when they obtain was manifested on the occasion. A num- them. ber came forward and professed anxiety about the salvation of their souls. I have been happy in obtaining the assistance of brother A. S. Morrison, of Tennessee, for two weeks. The first week we spent in the bounds of the church of Williamsburgh, preaching by day and by night, visiting from house to house; and on the Sabbath the Supper of our Lord was again administered, and five more were taken into the communion of the church "On the third Sabbath of June I adon examination, and two were admitted on occasional communion, and will be ministered the sacrament of the Lord's received as members as soon as their Supper in Deerfield, assisted by Rev. certificates of admission can be obtain- R. Rutherford. On that occasion, seven ed. I know ten persons that are under were admitted to the communion of the serious impressions in the bounds of church on examination. On the fourth Williamsburgh church. But I must Sabbath I administered the sacrament pass over to the church of White Oak. of the Lord's Supper in M'Connellsville, Here brother Morrison and myself have assisted by Rev. L. Dewit, of Athens spent from Thursday evening to Mon- Presbytery. Two were added to the day evening. Some of the White Oak church on examination. On the third congregation were at the camp meeting Sabbath of July I assisted Mr. Dewit, at W., and were brought to inquire af- during a communion season in Fearing; ter the Saviour. A four days meeting, and on last Sabbath I assisted Mr. Ruthto be holden at White Oak, was announ- erford in Olive. This last was a season ced to some of the White Oak people, of very considerable interest. Mr. Dewho were at the camp at Williams- wit was there during the whole of the burgh, and a stand in a shady grove, and closed on the following Monday. exercises, which commenced on Friday with seats, were prepared, and a number of people attended during the four On the last day Rev. William Wallace days. No one remained in the grove was present. Besides the congregation after night. Two sermons, with differ- usually assembling at that place, a conent exhortations, conversations, and ex-siderable number from neighbouring aminations, completed the exercises of congregations attended. Eight persons, the day. We attended public worship I believe, publicly professed faith in every evening at candle light, at the Christ, and for the first time commemomost convenient house in the neighbour-rated the Saviour's dying love. During hood, which was crowded to overflow- all the exercises the assembly appeared ing. to be very attentive and solemn. The "The Lord was with us, and blessed Holy Spirit was evidently present, prothe ordinances of his house to his ducing among professing Christians great ple. Many were impressed, and thirty-searchings of heart and deep solicitude two professed their faith in the Lord for the salvation of sinners, and convinJesus Christ, and were added to the cing some of sin, of righteousness, and church. A number are yet anxious judgment to come. A number, it is beabout the salvation of their souls. The lieved, were seriously impressed; and a Lord hath done great things for us at few, two or three young females in parWhite Oak, whereof we are glad. The ticular, were deeply distressed. Such Lord's dealings with this little church, times of refreshing, in a season of for two or three years, was trying the drought, are as reviving cordials to faith and exciting the fears of numbers your missionaries." of professed Christians. He had removed by death three elders and three influential members of the church, and has been threatening the only two el- "Yesterday we closed a communion ders that remain. His providence has, season in the church; on which occano doubt, been the means of exciting asion four persons were added to our litfew to wrestle hard with the Lord for tle flock on examination. On a former a blessing, and they have prevailed. occasion five were added; so that an VOL. VIII.-Ch, Adv. peo From the Rev. William Gray, Springfield, Clark county, Ohio, August 24th, 1830. 3 Q addition of nine persons have been con- me by either squeezing my hand in tonected in Christian fellowship with us, ken of assent, or shaking his head as since my ministration among this peo-expressive of a negative. This is the ple. I baptized one adult, and eight time in which Ministers of the Gospel infants have travelled about two hun-are frequently called for, when the perdred miles to meet appointments to preach-have visited some families in sickness, and others in health, to afford religious instruction, probably to the number of forty. I have preached about one hundred sermons-have attended a promising Bible class once a week, and an interesting Sabbath school about every fortnight; and have attended prayer meetings weekly. From Mr. James Paine, Lexington, Va., July 30th, 1830. "Since the commencement of the present month, I have preached sixteen times; travelled 198 miles; and visited a few families. I have also delivered several addresses to Bible classes, and to teachers and scholars of Sabbath schools. We have now four Bible classes, which promise much good, and which have already diffused a salutary influence. We have also four flourishing Sabbath schools, which exert a happy and powerful influence in the neighbourhoods where they are established; to each of these schools there is a very respectable library attached, from which much good will no doubt result. "During the present month, I have also organized a Temperance Society, on the total abstinence plan. Between fifteen and twenty members are now at tached to this society, and many more are expected to come forward and renounce the use of the Destroyer. "In the neighbourhood in which this society is formed, a man had about a week before its formation killed himself by the habitual and intemperate use of ardent spirits. I hope the lamentable and miserable end of this unhappy man, may prove a warning to others. I visited this man a little before he expired, and had a considerable conversation with him, if such it could be called, for he was speechless, and could only answer son cannot talk, and is unfit to be talked to, or reasoned with. Alas! what a deep delusion are thousands kept under by the world, the flesh, and the devil. 'Oh! that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end;' that they might so number their days as to apply their hearts unto | wisdom.' INDIANA. From the Rev. S. H. M'Nutt, Rockville, Indiana. "Since my last report, I have assisted in the administration of the Lord's Supper at three different places, on each occasion we had preaching three days in succession; in two of those places where I statedly preached, five members were received on examination; several persons who have yet made no profession seemed to be deeply impressed with a sense of the evil of sin, and of the necessity of an interest in the merits of Christ; how these impressions may eventuate is only known to him, who has the hearts of all men in his hands. The attention to the means of grace, has generally been such as was communicated in my last report. We have formed a Tract Society which, with the blessing ofGod, maybe very useful in this part of the country where the stated means of grace are but partially enjoyed. The members of the church of Shiloh, with the prospect of receiving aid in obtaining a supply of Bibles, offered their agency gratuitously to supply every destitute family with the Bible, within the bounds of the county, before next May; since the above resolution was adopted, they have obtained the co-operation of members of other churches, and we now hope that the benevolent work will soon be accomplished. Our temperance societies, though they have not much increased in the number of members, yet I doubt not they have been the means of doing good; that labour in the performance of which ardent spirits was generally used, and regarded as almost indispensable, is now in many instances performed without any-the members in general seem to possess a growing conviction of the efficacy and importance of associated effort for the promotion of Temperance, I believe that a general refor mation will eventually succeed the means that are used for the promotion of this cause-Omnipotence is engaged in its behalf, and it will ultimately overcome all opposition. There are three Sabbath Schools, within the limits of my ministerial labours, two of them seem rather to languish for want of a sufficient number of qualified teachers. This excellent institution is opposed by many professed friends of the Redeemer -and the same remark applies to all the benevolent institutions of the present day. Since my last report I have travelled four hundred and seventy-six miles, preached thirty-seven sermons, and delivered several exhortations-I have endeavoured to preach plainly, and faithfully the great fundamental doctrines of christianity, without eliciting opposition on controverted points. I beg an interest in your prayers for myself and for the rapidly increasing population of this western country." MISSOURI. state. The Romanists are numerous. They have a well-built stone Meetinghouse, a Nunnery, and three Schools. The Sabbath is awfully profaned by them. They pursue their secular business or amusements on the Sabbath without restraint, both before and after Mass and Vespers, I saw some of them one Sabbath morning building a logcabin in a barn-yard while we were going to church, and have seen dozens of young men every Sabbath playing ball before their meeting-house door. On one occasion I went up to them and told them they were doing wrong, that God commanded them to keep the Sabbath holy, and taking a Bible from my pocket, showed them the commandment and read it over to them. There were at least twenty young men present and not one of them could read the English version. Their Jesuitical teachers take no pains to have them instructed in English, and oppose their reading any thing written by Protestants. I told them I was grieved to see them sinning against God and in danger of hell, and From Mr. Theophilus G. Potts, Saint requested that they would leave off Charles, August 12, 1830. playing on the Sabbath. They answered they did not know it was wrong to play provided they did not curse nor fight; that their Priest had never told them so although he had often seen them playing, but that they would ask him about the commandment I had read to them and whatever he said they would do. But they continue the same practice. On Monday last, while in St. Louis, on a visit to my brother, I received a pressing invitation to go to Louisiana, ninety miles higher up the Mississippi; and having obtained a brother from 11linois to preach here next Sabbath, I intend to start to-day for Louisiana, taking Troy in my way. But you will understand by the above statement that "I arrived here on the 8th of April last, and began immediately to visit the people in the town and its vicinity, and to preach to them on the Sabbath in the room occupied by the Protestant school. The number that attended at first was about fifty persons, including the children of the Sabbath school. This number increased for two successive Sabbaths, after which, viz. on the 27th April, I went to St. Louis, according to a previous engagement, to supply my brother's pulpit until his return from the General Assembly. From St. Louis, I returned to St. Charles, the 10th of July and found the new Methodists' Meeting-house roofed and furan able and devoted minister is much nished with seats enough to accommo-needed in St. Charles. date one hundred and fifty or two hundred people, the dimensions of the house itself being about thirty by forty feet, and built of brick. In this house I have preached ever since. The number of attendants increased as before until the last Sabbath, when I preached to a full house, both morning and afternoon. By much the greater part of my hearers, however, were far from Presbyterianism in their religious sentiments: some Arminians, some Arians, some Universalists, some Romanists. The whole number of communicants whose names appear on the church record-book, is twenty-two, three of whom are absent, and several more in a cold and languid || The monthly concert of prayer was revived here the first Monday of this month. APPOINTMENTS. Alexandria and Huntingdon, Pa. under the Mr. S. Montgomery for 3 months to direction of the Female Missionary Society of those places. Mr. J. S. Blain, for 2 months to Tygart's valley, Randolph co. Va. Rev. J. Keller, for 1 year to congregation of Williamsport, Md. Mr. W. G. Campbell, for 1 year under the direction of Lexington Presbytery. Rev. Hillary Patrick, for 1 year to Lowndes and Monroe co. Miss. LETTERS RECEIVED, J. Tracy, N.Y. R. Clapp, N.Y. R. Glenn, Pa. J. Hill, O. W. C. Anderson, Pa. S. H. Crane, Ky. J. Thompson, Pa. W.Carlisle, S.C. A. Y. Lockridge,N. J. D. Newell, N.Y. J. S. Galloway, Pa. Com'tee of Church at Tuscaloosa, Ala., J. M. Brown, Va. H. Patten, Tenn. Com'tee of Cincinatti Presbytery, O. W. Kea, Ind. S. H. McNutt, do. W. B. Worrell, N.J. T. Barr, O. S.Cowles, O. J. C. Harrison, Ky. M. T. Caldwell, Geo. Com'tee of cong. of Williamsport, Md. 2; S. L. Governeur, N.Y. 2; J. M. Arnell, Pa. J. Paine, Va, P. Donan, N. J. J. H. Logan, Ky. A. Kyle, Ky. J. Oakes, N. Y. J. Hutchinson, Pa. T.E. Hughes, Ind. W.S.Potts, Mo. G.H.Hampson, Pa. D. M'Intyre, N.C. A. Aikman, N.J. A. N. Cunningham, N-J. C. M'Iver, Pa. S. Hubbard, N. Y. H. Patrick, Mo. F. M'Farland, Va. 2; J. H. Monroe, N.Y. R. B. Dobbins,O. S. H. Terry, Pa. W. W. Caldwell, Mass. NEW AUXILIARIES. St. Louis, Missouri; Derry, Pa.; Mahoning, do.; Lycoming,do.; Chillisquaque, do.; Pine Creek, do.; Great Island, do.; Warrior Run, do. Account of cash received by the Board of Missions of the General Assembly, during the month of August, 1830. Albany, N. Y. Col. in Rev. Mr. Kirk's church, per Cor. Secretary, From Aux. Soc. of 2d church, in part, Donation from Mr. Batchelder, Do. do. A. Platt, Do. do. Jos. Alexander, A Friend, Robinson co. N. C. 1 do do Richmond co. N. C. do Ballimore, Md. From aux. soc. of 1st church, per Mr. H. Bain, do. in part, per Cor. Secretary, Christiana, Del. From aux. soc. annual payment, per Rev. J. B. Crosby, Frankfort, Ky. do per Rev. Dr. J. Blythe, Germantown, Pa. From Manual Labour Academy, per Rev. J. Monteith, Long Run, Pa. Col. in cong. per A. M'Candless, Louisville, Ky. From aux. soc. per Rev. Dr. J. Blythe, Newtown, Bucks co. Pa. From aux. soc. additional, per Rev. Mr. Boyd, Newcastle, Ky. From aux. soc. per Rev. Dr. J. Blythe, Newark, N. J. Philadelphia, From Wm. Brown, Esq. his subscription for 1830, Pittsford, N. Y. Monthly Concert collection, per Cor. Secretary. do Reading, Pa. Collection in African church, per Rev. J. Glouchester, 7 50 50 100 00 100 00 1.00 4. 00 25 00 3.92 -233 92 5 75 7 17 6 00 100 Upper and Lower Path Valley, Pa. col. in cong. per Rev. A. A. M'Ginley, do do do W. B. Worrell, do Dr. J. Blythe, 8 50 1 50 9.50 3 50 THE EDITED BY WILLIAM NEILL, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. The following extract from an article which appeared in the Biblical Repertory, a few months since, is earnestly recommended to the particular attention of our readers; in the hope that they will be excited in view of the pressing necessities of the church, to immediate, united, and persevering efforts, to educate and send forth a large number of men, who have been "call ed of God as Aaron was," to preach to the destitute and perishing the unsearchable riches of Christ. | aid in obtaining them, be permitted to pass off the stage of action, and their children to grow up in ignorance and irreligion, before the heralds of the cross be sent to their assistance? Every one knows that the difficulty of instructing and reforming a people universally sunk in ignorance and vice, is an hundred-fold greater, than when a few are standing ready, at once, to take the minister of the gospel by the hand-to cheer him in his labours, and to aid him by their counsel, their influence, and their prayers. If our vast territory is ever to be filled with a Christian population, it is more economical to take possession, while we have in the bosom of the country auxiliaries, than to gain possession after it falls, as is the certain consequence of delay, entirely into the hands of the enemy. Now only a part, hereafter the whole of the expense must be "The Presbyteries connected with the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, report between six and seven hundred congregations destitute of regular pastors. And we venture to affirm, that the churches of other denominations are not, in proportion to their numbers, more fully supplied.borne by the established churches. In The proportion of ministers, to the pop- the one case, the strength and resources ulation of the United States, is every of the church would be increasing with year rapidly diminishing. The tide of the growth of the country. The churchpopulation is flowing to the west, to the es formed, would aid in forming others. north, and to the south; so that in less In case of present inaction, not only the than one-fourth of a century, cultivated relative, but the positive strength of the fields, flourishing villages, and large ci- church would diminish.-For in the ties, will occupy places now the abodes moral, as well as in the physical world, of wild beasts. These colonies, emigra-action is necessary, in order to retain the ting from Europe and the older states, vigour already possessed. All this is carry with them the elements of social admitted. The harvest truly is plenteinstitutions and Christian churches.ous, but the labourers are few. Where They not only receive with gratitude shall we find men of a right spirit duly the Christian missionary who visits their qualified for this work? What is to be new abode, but they send back from the done in the evident destitution of labourwilderness repeated and earnest entréa-ers necessary to collect and secure the ties, to give them Bibles, and ministers abundant harvest now ready for the able to teach them to understand what sickle? Our Master has given the anthey read. The American Bible So-swer-Pray ye therefore the Lord of ciety has said that they shall have the harvest, that he will send forth laBibles-and the Christian community is bourers into his harvest. This prayer responding-means shall be furnished has for ages been on the tongues of proto redeem the pledge. Missionary so- fessed Christians, and is still repeated, cieties are saying, we know where a whenever the wants of the church and thousand missionaries more than we can of the world come into remembrance. command, may be fully and usefully But is it accompanied with correspondemployed; and we know, also, where ing exertions? It is self-evident, that to the means necessary for their support pray to God to grant a particular blesscan be obtained. But men of suitable ing, when at the same time we neglect qualifications cannot be procured. Ne- the use of means in our power, necessaver did a field more extensive and pro-ry to its attainment, is nothing less than mising present itself to the enterprise of the Christian community. The question is, shall it be left uncultivated until it be overspread with briars, and thorns, and thistles? Shall those who know the value of Christian privileges, and are willing, according to their means, to solemn mockery. Earnestly to desire an object and not to raise a hand to receive it, when presented, is inconsistent with the invariable principles of human action. Could it be believed, that a man, having the perfect use of his limbs, was really thirsty and desirous of a drink |